HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                        Bill No. HB 1867, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Flanagan offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 1.  It is the finding and intent of the
18  Legislature that there exists a compelling state interest that
19  patients should be informed of the credentials of the health
20  care practitioners that treat them and that the public be
21  protected from misleading health care advertising. The
22  Legislature further finds that the area of board certification
23  can be extremely confusing for patients and that practitioners
24  could easily trick patients into believing that the
25  practitioner is better qualified than other similarly trained
26  practitioners simply by creating a sham designation or
27  creating a sham certification body. Therefore, the Legislature
28  finds that the most direct and effective manner in which to
29  protect patients from the identifiable harm of false or
30  misleading advertising of credentials is to ensure that
31  patients have a standard and easily understood method of
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                        Bill No. HB 1867, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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 9         providing legislative findings and intent with
10         respect to the advertising or office posting of
11         health care practitioner credentials;
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